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Many members of our workforce are experiencing reductions in income as nonessential businesses close due to COVID-19 restrictions. These businesses provided income for those who owned them and who are employed by them. Those who were…

For every sandwich sold, one will be donated to DC-area hospital workers.

Libby Diament has turned her bedroom into what she only half-jokingly calls a “shipping facility.” As the owner and founder of Diament Jewelry, a craft retailer with a brick-and-mortar store at The Wharf in D.C., she’s now working from her…

The only way to beat the coronavirus is for everyone to adhere to the stay-at-home orders. I don’t want to lose my job, but I feel the category of “essential” personnel is far too broad.

Nonprofit organizations across the D.C. metro region are being relied on now more than ever, and that’s especially true of nonprofits whose mission is to serve those at the greatest risk of infection from COVID-19.

“Nothing we can do will make up for being open, we’re obviously taking a huge hit.” said Bruce Gates Pearl, co-owner of Pearl Street Warehouse.

The union representing D.C. correctional officers has filed suit in D.C. Superior Court against the city’s Department of Corrections, claiming that the agency is actively putting correctional officers at deadly risk from exposure to the…

On the first day of April, five workers and one patient in the District’s only public psychiatric hospital had tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

Mike Buchanan, whose coverage of crime in the D.C. region included some of the biggest stores over three decades, has died. He was 78 years old.

The District has had years of economic growth that has produced budgets that saw surpluses, but with the coronavirus pandemic looming, city leaders say deep cuts in the upcoming budget are likely.

Norton Holds Virtual Town Hall

The participatory archive project aims to document life in DC during Covid-19.

A 27-year-old named Jessica wanted to find out whether the fever, shortness of breath and fatigue she had in mid-March were symptoms of COVID-19. Her urgent care clinic didn’t have coronavirus tests available, but she paid $290 Wednesday…

Buck, as his former colleagues and friends called him, was an "OG," an original gumshoe reporter.

A newly formed business group made an urgent plea to the D.C. Council on Thursday for tax abatements and other help for restaurants, retailers, hotels and entertainment venues devastated by the coronavirus-related shutdown.

The District’s only halfway house for men announced Thursday that it will close its prisoner reentry program amid criticism of its response to the coronavirus, raising questions about where D.C. residents returning from prison will be…

“It is just going to get worse and worse. It's just spreading so fast.”